Craig Reed wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of some 
> years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.  I was under the 
> impression that they were all stored on the server - was there a disk crash 
> or other catastrophe?
> 

The earliest message that shows up in my newsreader (Mozilla 
Thunderbird) is dated 12/13/1998 12:19 PM, from Jerome M. BERGER, titled 
"Re: The Plane (91K)".

Did you want something earlier than that?

...Chambers

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Tek wrote:
> Nope, it shows if you google Anders julia_fractal though, so the search does 
> go back that far.
> 

Time to shamelessly plug my Firefox search plugin.  Original post here:
http://news.povray.org/45a026fb%40news.povray.org

...Chambers

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High!

Tek wrote:
> Could be your newsreader? On the web interface I can see messages as old as 
> 1998, for example:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/?ttop=239649&toff=7850
> 

This is true in general - but, already in back in 2000 when I just 
discovered povray.binaries.imagesm I noticed that a large chunk of 
1999's messages (about eight months) went lost... not to mention 1998, 
of which only the last days of December exist on the server!

See you on www.khyberspace.de !

Yadgar

Now playing: Points Of A Compass (Peru)

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wrote:

>High!
>
>Tek wrote:
>> Could be your newsreader? On the web interface I can see messages as old as 
>> 1998, for example:
>> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/?ttop=239649&toff=7850
>> 
>
>This is true in general - but, already in back in 2000 when I just 
>discovered povray.binaries.imagesm I noticed that a large chunk of 
>1999's messages (about eight months) went lost... not to mention 1998, 
>of which only the last days of December exist on the server!
>
It's not just as far back as that. I was looking for an animation post called
the graveyard shift that I made in 2003. I can find replies to the post but my
original one and the animation has gone. A shame for me as I lost the original
in a HD crash.

Regards
	Stephen

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Chambers wrote:
> Craig Reed wrote:
> 
>> Hi -
>>       [...]
> 
> The earliest message that shows up in my newsreader (Mozilla 
> Thunderbird) is dated 12/13/1998 12:19 PM, from Jerome M. BERGER, titled 
> "Re: The Plane (91K)".

Interesting...  The oldest message that shows up in my copy of 
Thunderbird is dated 01/04/1980.     (Irrelevant, but interesting.)     :-)

> ...Chambers

      -=- Larry -=-

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Wandering along the edges of povray.binaries.images, I found the
following bit of electronic flotsam written by "dlm"
<me### [at] addressinvalid> in news:45f23107$1@news.povray.org: 

> "Craig Reed" <tha### [at] publicspamcom> wrote in message 
> news:Xns98EE8CDF3CC71tharkun860@203.29.75.35...
>> Hi -
>>
>> I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of
>> some years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.
> 
> Craig,
> They appear to go back to Jan 1999
> See
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/?ttop=239683&toff=10250 
> What author name were you using and did you post in '99?
> You can always Google 'site:news.povray.org authorname' to discover 
> everything you ever posted.
> You can always post to povray.off-topic :)
> DLM 
> 
> 
> 

I was posting here because this is where I was posting way back when.  My 
e-mail back then was tha### [at] nwlinkcom; googling using the above technique 
didn't produce any results, "site:news.povray.org craig reed" gave me the 
original post in this thread.

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Wandering along the edges of povray.binaries.images, I found the
following bit of electronic flotsam written by "Tek"
<tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> in news:45f29d98$1@news.povray.org: 

> Nope, it shows if you google Anders julia_fractal though, so the
> search does go back that far.
> 
Google says:
Your search - site:news.povray.org craig_reed - did not match any documents

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Wandering along the edges of povray.binaries.images, I found the
following bit of electronic flotsam written by Chambers
<ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> in news:45f38c92@news.povray.org: 

> Craig Reed wrote:
>> Hi -
>> 
>> I recall posting here around 1998 or 1999;  now, after an absence of
>> some years, I reload the group and find the old articles gone.  I was
>> under the impression that they were all stored on the server - was
>> there a disk crash or other catastrophe?
>> 
> 
> The earliest message that shows up in my newsreader (Mozilla 
> Thunderbird) is dated 12/13/1998 12:19 PM, from Jerome M. BERGER,
> titled "Re: The Plane (91K)".
> 
> Did you want something earlier than that?
> 
> ...Chambers
> 

I can't recall when my first post was; I'm reasonably certain I made no 
posts after 11-19-1999 until march of this year . . . . .

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Wandering along the edges of povray.binaries.images, I found the
following bit of electronic flotsam written by "Tek"
<tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> in news:45f22b3f$1@news.povray.org: 

> Could be your newsreader? On the web interface I can see messages as
> old as 1998, for example:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.general/?ttop=239649&toff=7850
> 

Using Xnews, retrieving *Everything* in this group, I get:

3 posts from 04 Jan 1998 by Ken Matassa
2 posts from 13 Dec 1998 by Jerome BERGER
1 post from  17 Dec 1998 by Jerome BERGER
1 post from  28 Apr 1999 by Fabien Heron
then
1 post from  28 Dec 1999 by Ron Parker

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"dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote:

> You can always Google 'site:news.povray.org authorname' to discover
> everything you ever posted.

A nifty little trick; hadn't thought of that. Thanks. Works for me!  (Of
course, I only started posting in the newsgroups in 2005 or so.)

KW

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